SMITH, CHARLOTTE Elegaic Sonnets and Other Poems. 5 engraved plates. 126 pages. 12mo, contemporary American tree calf gilt, front joint

cracked; light offsetting from plates, scattered minor spotting. Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1795 Produced from molds with a closely woven wire screen, wove paper was first used by John Baskerville in his 1757 quarto edition of Virgil, and introduced in America by Isaiah Thomas in this edition of Smith's poems. DARD HUNTER'S COPY, with his signatures. Hunter, Papermaking in Pioneer America, page 18; Blumenthal, The Printed Book in America, pages 18-23.